CVE-2011-1787

Name	CVE-2011-1787
Description	Race condition in mount.vmhgfs in the VMware Host Guest File System (HGFS) in VMware Workstation 7.1.x before 7.1.4, VMware Player 3.1.x before 3.1.4, VMware Fusion 3.1.x before 3.1.3, VMware ESXi 3.5 through 4.1, and VMware ESX 3.0.3 through 4.1 allows guest OS users to gain privileges on the guest OS by mounting a filesystem on top of an arbitrary directory.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
Debian Bugs	631506

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
open-vm-tools (PTS)	bullseye (security), bullseye	2:11.2.5-2+deb11u3	fixed
	bookworm, bookworm (security)	2:12.2.0-1+deb12u2	fixed
	trixie, sid	2:12.4.5-1	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
open-vm-tools	source	(unstable)	2:8.4.2+2011.08.21-471295-1			631506

[lenny] - open-vm-tools <no-dsa> (Contrib not supported)
[squeeze] - open-vm-tools <no-dsa> (Contrib not supported)